Hillary Clinton campaign: 'Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law'

The Hillary Clinton campaign responded to a report Thursday that
says Donald Trump violated the US embargo on Cuba nearly two
decades ago.

"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law,
flouted US foreign policy, and is in complete contradiction to
Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered
opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," said Jake
Sullivan, a senior adviser to Clinton's campaign.

Newsweek reported that a Trump company spent at least $68,000
in the communist country in 1998. The US embargo on Cuba
prohibited such business from being conducted in the country.

"This latest report shows once again that Trump will always put
his own business interest ahead of the national interest — and
has no trouble lying about it," Sullivan said.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, was asked about the
allegations during an appearance on "The View" on Thursday.

"Read the entire story," she told the hosts of the daytime
program. "It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually
does, that he did business in Cuba, and it turns out that he
decided not to invest there. You have to read the entire story."

"So are you denying that his company spent any money in Cuba?" a
host asked Conway.

"I think they paid money, as I understand from the story, they
paid money in 1998," the Trump campaign manager said before
pivoting to the Clintons.

The news comes as Clinton has had a
slight bump in the polls from her well-received performance
during Monday' night's presidential debate at Hofstra University.